🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread

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I’m honestly surprised Conor is still able to attract fans.

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Could Conor be the asshole of this sport?

If he’d been a little luckier and pulled off a major surprise against Holloway, I’m sure we’d be hearing talk of a belt match for him...

We really do come to appreciate the importance of decentralization even more in situations like this. In centralized organizations, concepts like fair, objective evaluation, and impartiality are always replaced by major doubts...

[OgNasty]

I’m honestly surprised Conor is still able to attract fans.

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Could Conor be the asshole of this sport?

If he’d been a little luckier and pulled off a major surprise against Holloway, I’m sure we’d be hearing talk of a belt match for him...

We really do come to appreciate the importance of decentralization even more in situations like this. In centralized organizations, concepts like fair, objective evaluation, and impartiality are always replaced by major doubts...

At this point I don’t think it is so much about Conor being able to attract fans but about the UFC trying to do their best to make the best of a bad contract situation. They have to pay Conor $30 million to headline an event, so they have to promote it and try to put on a good money making show. The fans are ultimately the ones who pay the price.

[Taskford]

I’m honestly surprised Conor is still able to attract fans.

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100% doping

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Could Conor be the asshole of this sport?

If he’d been a little luckier and pulled off a major surprise against Holloway, I’m sure we’d be hearing talk of a belt match for him...

We really do come to appreciate the importance of decentralization even more in situations like this. In centralized organizations, concepts like fair, objective evaluation, and impartiality are always replaced by major doubts...

At this point I don’t think it is so much about Conor being able to attract fans but about the UFC trying to do their best to make the best of a bad contract situation. They have to pay Conor $30 million to headline an event, so they have to promote it and try to put on a good money making show. The fans are ultimately the ones who pay the price.

They know there's still lots of hype on him, that's why UFC choose to give him big contract to make him decide to come back.

UFC knows that Conor fight could still generate big revenue and its natural for business, since they always take advantage on matters that can help them earn more revenue. Also as long as many people still watch his matches either exhibition or not, he would provably get more fights.

People want to get entertain and for sure this is what they are seeking in this fight, then those people watching him don't care about other matters.

[TopTort777]

I’m honestly surprised Conor is still able to attract fans.

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UFC long ago has gone far from being sport only to more entertaining. They are no longer a place to find out which fighting style is better and who is better. In the past fighters were more unique and had unique backgrounds. Fighters went fighting because of being poor, wanted to prove something and etc. Now it is more like a fighting factory. Fighters are people who work for media and generate hype, and in between they train and fight.

In the past. Dude got hit by track. Was in coma. Half of his inside body was smashed. Doctors told he would never be able to move again. He became not only bjj black belt and multiple champion, but had mma Pride belt, series of wins. Fight 2-3 times per night. Was ready to fight anyone.

Now. Dude plays Fortnite. Enjoys life. Trains when he has time. Chooses opponents he wants to fight instead of be ready to jump in against anyone. However, he has millions of followers in social media and that makes him demanded to watch...

If Conor gets into more troubles, or gets in jail, and fights in 10 years only, he will still be one of he biggest stars, maybe even bigger than now. Bitter reality.

[tokeweed]

This upcoming UFC main card looks amazing, and I am expecting to see a lot of KO and TKO endings.
I watched several fights of Medic and I think he is a great fighter, and I think this time he is going to have supporters on his side.
Sometimes this can be a good thing if fighter is mentally strong, but they can also feel the pressure to perform at their best.

I wouldn't call it 'amazing' by any chance but hopefully it does give entertaining match ups.

But yeah, here are the picks for the degen parlay...

Rodriguez
Stirling
Rakic
Valentin
Cepo
Janicic
Musayev
Oliveira
Nikolic
Grad
Rebecki
Milosevic
Leka
Luciano

Line on the for this set of picks is 626.45.    10 bucks win 6264.50.  It's a long shot as usual but some select people itt will get some money in case the parlay wins.

Here's a couple of replays of the guys in the main event...

Uros Medic vs Geoff Neal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43_Kq9EYL8Q

Daniel Rodriguez vs Santiago Ponzinibbio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhTr6haywI

[Pumared]

I’m honestly surprised Conor is still able to attract fans.

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Could Conor be the asshole of this sport?

If he’d been a little luckier and pulled off a major surprise against Holloway, I’m sure we’d be hearing talk of a belt match for him...

We really do come to appreciate the importance of decentralization even more in situations like this. In centralized organizations, concepts like fair, objective evaluation, and impartiality are always replaced by major doubts...

At this point I don’t think it is so much about Conor being able to attract fans but about the UFC trying to do their best to make the best of a bad contract situation. They have to pay Conor $30 million to headline an event, so they have to promote it and try to put on a good money making show. The fans are ultimately the ones who pay the price.

They know there's still lots of hype on him, that's why UFC choose to give him big contract to make him decide to come back.

UFC knows that Conor fight could still generate big revenue and its natural for business, since they always take advantage on matters that can help them earn more revenue. Also as long as many people still watch his matches either exhibition or not, he would provably get more fights.

People want to get entertain and for sure this is what they are seeking in this fight, then those people watching him don't care about other matters.

Perfectly put, as long as Connor still attracts an audience, he will continue to earn rivers of money, regardless of how or what he does. In the end, the average viewer likes to see these provocations because they want a show every week, and Connor delivers everything the audience likes.

[pawel7777]

A former UFC fighter, Anthony Smith, has been arrested in Nebraska on 3 felony charges: terroristic threats, false imprisonment and first degree domestic violence assault.
He was released on $500k bond.

It's another case of mma fighter not coping very well with retirement. He had some analyst/commentary gigs going on, but I think this is now over. It's not clear what he has done and whether he's guilty or not, but those charges sound pretty serious, not like something that can be easily shrugged off.

[OgNasty]

Now McGregor is trying to say that the reason he injured himself was because the ring floor was wet from the dry ice smoke show that went down as he was entering the cage.  I think this is a cop out way too late to be believed, but that isn't going to stop him from adding it to his list of excuses.  Anything to avoid saying the truth...  He was injured long before that fight started and hid it for a paycheck.  Every one of his fans should be pissed.

[eaLiTy]

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If he’d been a little luckier and pulled off a major surprise against Holloway, I’m sure we’d be hearing talk of a belt match for him...

I am not a huge fan of Conor McGregor, but he actually changed the sport completely. He might not be a model athlete, but he was instrumental in the UFC gaining the level of fans they have right now. You cannot be a two-division world champion without fighting skills, and he did not defeat bums to reach those levels either.

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In the past. Dude got hit by track. Was in coma. Half of his inside body was smashed. Doctors told he would never be able to move again. He became not only bjj black belt and multiple champion, but had mma Pride belt, series of wins. Fight 2-3 times per night. Was ready to fight anyone.

Now. Dude plays Fortnite. Enjoys life. Trains when he has time. Chooses opponents he wants to fight instead of be ready to jump in against anyone. However, he has millions of followers in social media and that makes him demanded to watch...

Looks like you are talking about Minotauro Nogueira. He was a legend in PRIDE; he only lost to Fedor Emelianenko, if I remember correctly, and in those days everyone fought multiple matches in every event and everyone was mentally and physically tough.

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A former UFC fighter, Anthony Smith, has been arrested in Nebraska on 3 felony charges: terroristic threats, false imprisonment and first degree domestic violence assault.
He was released on $500k bond.

It's another case of mma fighter not coping very well with retirement. He had some analyst/commentary gigs going on, but I think this is now over. It's not clear what he has done and whether he's guilty or not, but those charges sound pretty serious, not like something that can be easily shrugged off.

It is really unfortunate and sad to see another former fighter getting into trouble. I was following his social media channels, and his take on the events and fight predictions.